Personal Space: Spring break
A two-for-one charity match from Computer Associates International Inc. helped business development director Leslie Barry, her family and other volunteers build a concrete-block home for a Nicaraguan mother and four daughters.
Packet Rat: The Net survives a feeble fable
Sometimes the story of computer security reads like a Tom Clancy novel. And other times, it reads like a nursery rhyme.
Sun volunteers help pack for Iraq
Volunteers spent a recent Saturday at a USO warehouse at Fort Meade, Md., putting together some 6,000 care packages for troops in Iraq. The effort was organized under Sun Microsystems Inc.'s 10th annual Worldwide Volunteer Week and contributed to Operation USO Care Package.
Tim Berners-Lee gets a grand prize
Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the Web, last month won the inaugural Millennium Technology Prize awarded by the Finnish Technology Award Foundation.
Pentagon memorial fund under way
Representatives of government, industry and victims' families took a step recently toward building a memorial to the victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, attack on the Pentagon.
People on the Move
The Defense Department has appointed Dr. Paul A. Tibbits director of one of its largest modernization projects.The former Navy commander has taken the helm of the Business Modernization and Systems Integration Program Office.
President sets goals for e-health initiatives
President Bush has directed the Health and Human Services Department to develop a program that will ensure the use of electronic health records for most Americans within 10 years and electronic prescriptions within five years.
Army will expand battlefield tracking app
Having successfully used its Blue Force Tracking system in the battlefields of Afghanistan and Iraq, the Army will broaden use of the tool for identifying friendly and enemy forces.
Federal Contract Law: Agencies have upper hand in control of data rights
The Court of Federal Claims recently issued a rare decision dealing with the operation of the standard rights-in-data clause of the Federal Acquisition Regulations.
Prototype Army projector offers a really, really big show
An Army research center has cobbled together what it calls the world's highest-resolution, large-screen projector.Commanders hope to eventually use it to view large maps with detail down to street names.
OPM ferrets out fake degrees, will revise policies
As the Senate prepares to open hearings next week on the use of questionable academic credentials in the government, the Office of Personnel Management has found several employees with bogus degrees.
Collins would give feds A-76 protest rights
Sen. Susan Collins wants to give federal employees the right to protest OMB Circular A-76 decisions. The Maine Republican was set to introduce the bill late last week.
Agencies told to assess EA capabilities
The Office of Management and Budget's Federal Enterprise Architecture Program Management Office last week released an assessment tool for agencies to evaluate their enterprise architectures, set baselines and address problems.
Battle brewing over successor to DVD format
With the release of what it claims is the first blue-laser optical disk reader for data, Sony Corp. has kicked off a standards war over the eventual replacement of DVDs that promises to be comparable to the Betamax-versus-VHS clash.
Lawmakers renew push for data-mining law
Sens. Patrick Leahy and Russell Feingold are urging fellow lawmakers to support a bill that would require agencies to report to Congress on data-mining technologies used for homeland security purposes.
RFP coming for law enforcement wireless net
The departments of Homeland Security, Justice and Treasury plan to seek proposals for their joint Integrated Wireless Network this summer.
New DHS tech requirements aim to save Safecom
The Homeland Security Department late last month released technical requirements for future public-safety wireless communications and interoperability.
FinCEN plans to modernize Bank Secrecy Act database
Upgrades to include new data retrieval system and applications that perform deeper analysis and improve data mining.
FTC files first CAN-SPAM cases
Companies in the United States and Australia are accused of fraudulent e-mail advertising of medical and herbal products.
Nominee for DOD comptroller would focus on Guard pay
The pay problems plaguing many National Guard units would get the full attention of Tina Westby Jonas if she is confirmed as the new Defense comptroller, Jonas told the Senate Armed Services Committee.
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